The Court of District and Sessions Judge Shillong, was established in
1973. In the Normal areas of Shillong, the court of the District Judge,
Munsiff and others try civil cases arising therefrom. The courts come
under the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 and other laws defining their
territorial and pecuniary jurisdiction, etc. In criminal matters, courts
of the Sessions Judge, The Chief Judicial Magistrate and other Judicial
Magistrate are set up under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.